[CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Wed Apr 30 18:10:13 UTC 2014


Lamar Owen wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 10:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
<snip>
> The upstream documentation has some info; the man pages (nm-applet(1),
> nm-connection-editor(1), nm-online(1), nm-tool(1), nmcli(1),
> NetworkManager.conf(5), nm-system-settings.conf(5), and
> NetworkManager(8) all have useful information.  I'm sure it could be
> improved, but so far it's been useful to me.  I should probably edit my
> initial sentence to 'NetworkManage is fairly well documented' instead, I
> guess.

Great - that many manpages....
>
>> I find the NM messages on /var/log/messages ludicrously verbose; and
>> even after wading through these messages it is difficult to determine
>> exactly what is wrong. In my view NM should spend a little time trying
>> to make these messages more helpful.
> Agreed.  They're almost as opaque as SELinux avc denials.

Just like what Lose, I mean, WinDoze, logs... paragraph long "error
messages" that are mostly useless and information-free.

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